Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker

Sid · Jan 14, 2021

Spencer said:
have you weighed them?

Some members have baled enough to know the exact weight of a bale just by eye

Full of bull(s) · Jan 14, 2021

Sid said:
Some members have baled enough to know the exact weight of a bale just by eye

There’s weight and weight when you can’t get the tines to pull out and when they do steam follows..... I’d rather they weren’t scale busters and I can use them

Derrick Hughes · Jan 14, 2021

bobk said:
I'm more concerned about next year , can I get my customers back ......

Wish more did not think like that.

Derrick Hughes · Jan 14, 2021

bobk said:
Can't give them what I haven't got

I can get plenty atm but I may kill them off with what they have to pay me

bobk · Jan 14, 2021

Derrick Hughes said:
I can get plenty atm but I may kill them off with what they have to pay me

I sold what I had at a slight increase on last years price , you have to look at the big picture

fieldfarmer · Jan 14, 2021

Derrick Hughes said:
I can get plenty atm but I may kill them off with what they have to pay me

If I had run out and you were supplying one of my customers with say 20% of there straw requirements this year I would like to think they still used you for 20% next year, loyalty is a good thing, what if I was short the following year and had to say no again.

Derrick Hughes · Jan 14, 2021

fieldfarmer said:
If I had run out and you were supplying one of my customers with say 20% of there straw requirements this year I would like to think they still used you for 20% next year, loyalty is a good thing, what if I was short the following year and had to say no again.

We shift 2000 small bales most weeks . If I have to double the price I will be looked on as Mr Expensive especially by gossips who can't get any to sell , and some of these small holders may just get rid of their stock as to expesive to keep
We buy all that in so have no control over the price . I cant loose money on it
I suppose it could be worse . I may have spent £60,000 on a bale packer

fieldfarmer · Jan 14, 2021

Derrick Hughes said:
We shift 2000 small bales most weeks . If I have to double the price I will be looked on as Mr Expensive especially by gossips who can't get any to sell , and some of these small holders may just get rid of their stock as to expesive to keep
We buy all that in so have no control over the price . I cant loose money on it

Agree, but if you're not careful your just performing a service for no profit or with out gaining a new long term commitment.

Celt83 · Jan 14, 2021

bobk said:
I sold what I had at a slight increase on last years price , you have to look at the big picture

Well done Bob. Great attitude! Can't like that enough!

BUT if the straw job is on its ar$e next year I hope your customers remember your generosity this year.

Spencer · Jan 14, 2021

Full of bull(s) said:
No. I buy squares by weight and rounds by the bale. I don’t use many rounds, only in some long narrow pens I have stirks in, they get a bale twice a week, the quality is more important than a few kilos either way. To be honest if they were super solid the extra straw would be wasted as there would too much for the pen. I also bought a heap of 100 first cut haylage, horse quality 120/90 by 5’6” for £30/bale to collect. Lovely smelling stuff, a lot better value for racks than straw imo

My 4 foot rounds av 275kg so was thinking at £25/bale or £90/t they wouldn't really be a leg lift?

bobk · Jan 14, 2021

Celt83 said:
Well done Bob. Great attitude! Can't like that enough!

BUT if the straw job is on its ar$e next year I hope your customers remember your generosity this year.

I knock some pressure off the baler .

Celt83 · Jan 14, 2021

bobk said:
I knock some pressure off the baler .

No greater feeling than lifting a hay bale by the strings and the bale staying on the floor!

Wbarker96 · Jan 14, 2021

Full of bull(s) said:
Anyone who doesn’t like shocks please sit down because I have not one but TWO definite straw prices from this week. Inside stored 4” round bale winter barley straw delivered in today @£25.75/bale, up from previous loads @£20, at local mart (Northallerton) same statement but to collect yourself made £30/bale at auction so all in all I consider my leg lifted but not thoroughly rogered.

Have they got anymore to sell @ £25.75. Seems reasonable the way the job is atm. Square bales at Northallerton yesterday were unsold at I think £51

Full of bull(s) · Jan 14, 2021

Spencer said:
My 4 foot rounds av 275kg so was thinking at £25/bale or £90/t they wouldn't really be a leg lift?

They won’t weigh that and wouldn’t want them to. At a guess 200kg, £127ish still in line, I have no problem with the merchant either, I just resent paying that much in general

som farmer · Jan 14, 2021

we have taken on extra ground this year, stock numbers take time to build up, so 18 acres corn going in, grain to feed the youngstock, and hopefully a nice bit of straw. Going in behind kale, and will drill with rape, after combining, for outwintering again. If the weathers crap, w/c, or crimped. a alternative.

onthehoof · Jan 15, 2021

So who was the naughty boy who ran up the hay at St Ives and now wants to back out

Derrick Hughes · Jan 15, 2021

onthehoof said:
So who was the naughty boy who ran up the hay at St Ives and now wants to back out

No idea but its going on my wagon now

onthehoof · Jan 15, 2021

Derrick Hughes said:
No idea but its going on my wagon now

Hope you got a discount, just goes to show these online auctions have no transparency

Skintagain · Jan 15, 2021

onthehoof said:
Hope you got a discount, just goes to show these online auctions have no transparency

Neither do live auctions

Derrick Hughes · Jan 16, 2021

Skintagain said:
Neither do live auctions

At least you can see the whites of their eyes
Those phone bids get me though
It will all come right again

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